Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

Uranus and Neptune are the two furthest planets in the Solar System and have been visited only once by human spacecraft – by Voyager 2 over 30 years ago – so there is a lot about them that we do not ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

Neptune, long believed to be dark blue, is actually very pale like Uranus, scientists say. They used modern telescopes to re-assess artificially enhanced images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe. We can ...

Among the most famous images taken by the Voyager spacecraft are those of Uranus and Neptune. When you think of these planets, you’re likely imagining them based on the images taken by Voyager 2 in ...

Winds can reach up to 1,200 miles per hour on Neptune, the planet furthest from the Sun in our Solar System.

Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the heaviest Neptune-like planet yet — one more than four times the mass of our solar system's Neptune — yet it remains a mystery how the world might have ...

Artist’s concept of a Neptune-sized planet, left, around a blue, A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas giant around one of these bright, but short-lived, stars, right ...

Neptune takes approximately 14 years to transit through each zodiac sign, making it a generational planet. This means that ...